The Grundlestag was drawn as part of a demo presentation recently at BYU based on votes and input from the crowd. It was a ton fun to draw and we loved hanging out with everyone. (Sorry Hippo Hero, Brawler Boar, and Yakuza Yak, you will all have to wait!)
I had plenty of time this week to finally finished him up because we are fully bunkered in here. It's as if it's Birdbox out there thanks to the REAL monster of the month....
2020-03-20 16:49:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey Everybody! Hope you are staying safe during the zombie apocalypse! We just got back in from The Fantastic Arts Conference and today I have a few of the drawings from the event to share with you! The first is the Traitor Toad drawn live during a 3 hour demo while we were in Utah. We took input from the crowd and had a blast drawing this one!
We also finished the Grundlestag for our demo at BYU, but we gave the origin...
2020-03-17 18:42:36 +0000 UTC
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This monster was drawn live on TWITCH last week, and our plan is to start colorizing him live on stream next week! Tune in Wednesday the 4th at 10AM to see how far we make it!
EDIT: Wednesday, 4th: Sorry everyone who tuned in today! We had to cancel the stream. Our little dog Dakota passed away last night and it is a hard time here at the moment. Thank you everyone for bearing with us. We will be back on Twitch March 18th.
2020-03-03 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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March is here and it will be a crazy month!
First off: I will be out of town March 4th through the 14th for the Fantastic Arts Conference in Utah! While we are away, we are going to be doing a lot of live demos, so expect some surprises while we are on the road, and a lot of fun bonus content later in the month once I have returned and have a chance to scan and upload everything.
While we are Utah we will be doing demos
2020-03-01 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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GIF Animatic and Brush Set for The Three-Headed Gryphon!
If you'd like to see more there is also a bit of a tour of the layers for the Gryphon on last week's Twitch Stream VOD.
Dropbox Link to this month's goodie bag:
BRUSH SET DOWNLOAD&nbs...
2020-02-27 15:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Today I have a hi-res of the Dungeon Master Series image for February, The Totem of the Rat King, for you!
We painted the wizard and dwarf into the scene live on Twitch last Wednesday and had a great time hanging out with a lot of you!
VOD is available on my Twitch channel here!: https://www.twitch.tv/jus...
2020-02-24 16:07:09 +0000 UTC
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Here is the tight drawing and a rough sketch from The Totem of the Rat King, our Dungeon Master Series image for February! This is the transfer drawing, rendered in 2H and HB pencil. I have done this one very large at 16"x20" inches, and it will be the largest watercolor we've attempted so far. The reason?? I'm painting it LIVE! For this week's Twitch stream, we are demoing the watercolor painting using The Tote...
2020-02-18 14:13:25 +0000 UTC
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Happy Valentine's Day! Today I have the final color for our Monster of the Month for February, The Three-Headed Gryphon. If you were able to join us on Wednesday for our first-ever Twitch stream, we made to about the half-way point colorizing it. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and dropped a comment! I loved seeing you all there! We had a great time and will definitely do it again.
Right now we are tentatively schedule...
2020-02-14 14:42:25 +0000 UTC
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It's finally happening! We're going live! Stop by and say hello tomorrow as we paint this month's Monster of the Month, The Three-Headed Gryphon, live on TWITCH!
https://www.twitch.tv/justingerardillustration
Stream officially starts at 10AM EST on Wednesday and will run for 2 hours or so. It's our first stream ever, and we have never livestreamed before, so who k...
2020-02-11 19:53:51 +0000 UTC
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Here are our 2 monsters from this month's battle! If you haven't already, head over to our February poll and vote for which you would like to see go to full color!
2020-02-04 14:08:40 +0000 UTC
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This month's Poll for Monster of the Month is between 2 nature deities. While most of the monsters in this series are smaller and human-sized, but these 2 are gigantic, city bus-sized creatures. They are both guardians of dark, forgotten realms where humans and angels fear to tread!
So which should be our Monster of the Month for February? Which seems to...
2020-02-04 14:02:29 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to February!
Here's what to expect this month:
Monster of the Month, will be another vs battle! This time between 2 nature deities: The 3-Headed Gryphon and the Void Basilisk. We will have the votes for which will be our Monster this month starting next week!
The Dungeon Master Series Image this month will be The Totem of the Rat King! You can expect a lot of sketches a...
2020-02-02 18:01:30 +0000 UTC
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We had time for one more monster this month! So the Fire Frog was able to sneak in for a full color version this month along with the winner, the Hedge Guard.
I also decided to use the Fire Frog for this month's Animatic, as the Hedge Guard was all of the place, and the process was a bit too messy.
I reeeeally like this mo...
2020-01-27 20:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Help choose the next Dungeon Master Series Illustration! For Act 3, we have 3 choices to vote on and whichever image wins will be our adventure for February!
Dark wizard Security Systems
"The band attempts to break into a wizard's ...
2020-01-23 16:37:09 +0000 UTC
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Edit: Ahhhh! Nooooo.... This post was not meant to be posted today! I apparently mistyped the post date. It was meant for February! Oh well, it looks like you guys get a bonus monster this month instead! :D Enjoy!
2020-01-22 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The Hedge Guard defeated his mortal foe: the Fire Frog, in this month's Monster-of-the-Month battle! The Hedge Guard won by a fairly wide margin, with almost twice as many votes.
But in spite of the wide margin of victory in the polls, it was almost certainly a gruesome battle, (if the comments outlining the battle here and on Instagram...
2020-01-19 13:50:38 +0000 UTC
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Here is the final artwork for Goblin Ambush! Whoooo! This one was awesome to work on! I had a hard time putting it down and it took every bit of the last 3 weeks to complete. (Even now I find myself wanting to go back and noodle with the odd detail here and there....)
Here is a look at what the original color comp was for the image:
2020-01-16 14:13:50 +0000 UTC
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Here are the hi-res versions of the monsters from our January poll! Make sure to vote in the other post to decide which should go to full-color!
2020-01-07 14:54:20 +0000 UTC
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Who should be our Monster of the Month? It is a battle of nature spirits! Would the irritable mutant frog that breathes fire win? Or the corrupted nature spirit wielding a giant sword? It seems like it would be a gruesome battle. Whoever wins would likely be left at 1 health by the end of it.
You must choose! Winner goes to full-color and will January's Monster of the ...
2020-01-07 14:54:11 +0000 UTC
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Today I have a sneak preview of some concept art for the next image in our Dungeon Master Series, Goblin Ambush!
This one features a team of hapless adventurers who have blundered into a carefully laid trap. This one features an abandoned medieval city, which will be an interesting break from our usual backgrounds that often involve a wilderness or dungeon of some sort. It's also easily the most complex illustration we've attempted in a very long ti...
2020-01-03 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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First of all, WELCOME TO 2020!!
We've got a lot of exciting things planned for this year, so let's dive right in:
- The biggest change this year is for the $5 Classic Fantasy Illustration tier. In 2019 we focused heavily on Plague of Dragons, and I'm excited to say that we have finished our first sketchbook for the series and we have sent it off to the printer! (Look for an announcement on the release date for it coming up soon)...
2020-01-01 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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FIRST LOOK AT OUR NEW DUNGEON MASTER SERIES!
Welcome to our first addition our new Dungeon Master Series!
It is entitled, Choosing Flight. "Your thief had returned to the camp with treasure! Also: He is pursued by cave trolls..
2019-12-27 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Woooooo we did it everyone! Our final chart ended up with 10 finished drawings from the Holiday Feast Series! It was every bit as fun as I'd hoped it would be! Thank you all for your support this year!
Happy Holidays and I hope you enjoy whatever feasts you will be attending!
-jg
2019-12-24 13:08:34 +0000 UTC
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Here is a spicy Mustard Knight Animatic! It is really straight-forward. (I mean, he's only made of mustard, right?) So he was nice and uncomplicated. Not like that Toffee Golem, that guy nearly killed me trying to get all the refractions and translucent lighting effects correct! I feel like if he were a boss fight, it was one I had to restart 64 times before finally beating him. The Mustard Knight was just so simple and easy to deal with by ...
2019-12-23 01:00:00 +0000 UTC
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We've had a lot of calls for one particular Holiday dessert that I totally forgot to add to the Holiday Feast Series: Figgy Pudding! (The classic kind that you have to light on fire!) Figgy Pudding seems like it was intentionally design to terrify kids, particularly ones who just got used to the straight-forward, sugary simplicity of Halloween candy.
Also! To round out the series I finished up "Spider-Eye Stew", now renamed to Mushroom St...
2019-12-19 20:08:07 +0000 UTC
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It's the spiciest of Monsters for December: The Mustard Knight! As an adult I like spicy mustard in rare circumstances. But as a kid, wow, was it disgusting.
And a small personal victory on this one: We made it in under the 5 hour mark, making The Mustard Knight the only other monster to join the Mummy Minotaur in the 5 hour club. This monster came together really fast, likely because there were only 3 types of surfaces...
2019-12-16 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Drawn with a Staedtler 925 in 2H and 4B leads on Strathmore smooth bristol.
The Goo drawing is a little rough around the edges... I ended up reworking him on the paper quite a bit because I just wasn't hitting the shape I wanted. You can still see a tiny bit of the reworking, but overall I am just amazed at the amount of reworking this Strathmore 500 Bristol can take without feathering up or deteriorating. It is just awesome paper.
Goo is defin...
2019-12-11 14:37:22 +0000 UTC
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I've always had a love for the classic dungeon master style illustration... and especially ones depicting those moments where the adventurer just landed a truly terrible roll of the dice.
With that said, I am pleased to announce a new Classic Fantasy Illustration series here on the Patreon for 2020: The Dungeon Master Series! The goal of this series is to produce a Portfolio Print Set of images dedicated to those RPG moments...
2019-12-09 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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I fear something has gone terribly awry with this potato...
Drawing with a Staedtler 925 in 2H and 4B leads. Drawn on Strathmore smooth bristol.
Next up: "Meat Pie!"
2019-12-03 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the Holidays! This month we are continuing on with our Monsters of the Holiday Feast series. Last month's monsters were everything that I'd hoped they'd be and I am really excited to share the Murder Spud and Meat Pie with you guys soon. I am just finishing the tight pencil work on those goes today.
For the Mentorships: They will be happening a little later this month because of some very slight, very minor catastrophes here. The ...
2019-12-02 14:52:35 +0000 UTC
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